Q. What’s your favorite mobile app from any cloud provider?

Ok, maybe that’s the wrong question. Let’s try again.

Q: If every important piece of software in your life is in your pocket, why isn’t your cloud provider?

There it is, that’s the question. Let’s get on with the show.

Today we’re releasing the Railway iOS mobile app in preview to TestFlight.

We decided to release a mobile app for a number of reasons, but the one most personal to me is that I don’t think anyone should be obligated to take their laptop to the restaurant this upcoming weekend.

Beyond that, have you tried the AWS Console app?

Or the Google Cloud app?

They’re useful to see how much money you’re spending, but otherwise they’re pretty much read-only … and even in that mandate they fail to inspire.

These apps also invariably fall back to the web browser view. Hasn’t any cloud thought of offering a modern mobile experience?

The Railway app isn’t feature-complete or at parity with the Railway web console (yet), but the plan is to build a mobile xp that puts you in complete control of your infra stack, no matter where you are this weekend.

Sound good?

Without further ado, we’d like to run you through some of the launch features.

If we’d like to create a new project, we can simply ask the Railway Agent for what we need. The agent will be happy to create any number of services from 3,000+ templates on the Railway template marketplace.

Let’s start by asking for a new TanStack application.

Creating a new application using TanStack

Great! But now that we made a TanStack app, we now need some way to persist data.

We’ll use the Railway Agent again to add a PostgreSQL database.

Adding a PostgreSQL db to the new project

After we select the Postgres template to add to our project, we’ll see the changes are ready to apply.

Staging changes to our project

Now we’ll apply those staged changes and kick off a new deploy.

Applying staged changes

Now that we have a TanStack application with Postgres deployed, let’s check out some metrics.

Viewing metrics for the deployed services

We can also view and filter logs.

Filtering service level logs on the go

And we can receive notifications at the project and service level …

Viewing and responding to notifications

Is there anything missing so far? Anything you’d love to see next?

Drop us a line in Central Station and let us know.